Volume III

Issue : 2: January 27, 2005

• Court Dismisses Action against ISP for Suspending User Account
• File Swapping Arrest first in Hong Kong
• Spam Complainant sued for Tortuous Interference and Defamation
• U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Web casting Rates
• Ohio Court Initiates Online Posting of Videos of Court Proceedings
• Internet Tobacco Sales New York Moves to Tax Sales and Online Retailer Indicted
• Copyright Collective to seek Levy on MP3 players from Supreme Court
• Rhode Island Decides to Licence Canadian Online Pharmacies
• Canadian Government Claims U.S. Court Decision in RIM Litigation Threatens Canadian Business
• U.S. Plans to Track Visitors with RFID Chips

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U.S. Plans to Track Visitors with RFID Chips

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will use RFID chips on a trial basis to track the arrival and return of visitors from abroad. The testing phase, which will commence this spring and is expected to last one year, will occur at selected points of entry across the U.S., and it will complement the current U.S.-VISIT scheme. The U.S.-VISIT scheme, which has encountered criticism, entails fingerpriting visitors, and to date over 400 people have been refused entry or arrested as a result of this scheme. Although the exact way that the RFID chips will be implemented is not yet known, they will be used to track pedestrians and vehicles entering the U.S. Asa Hutchinson, U.S. Under Secretary for Border and Transportation said, "through the use of radio frequency technology, we see the potential to not only improve the security of our country, but also to make the most important infrastructure enhancements to the US land borders in more than 50 years."

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